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You might think snack time is just for preschoolers, but everyone can benefit from eating a few bites between meals. Aside from filling nutritional holes in your diet, snacking can also help you on your road to weight loss. If the numbers on the scale are on your mind, here are three ways snacking can help you lose weight.

Snacks Keep Blood Sugar Levels Steady
If you’ve ever gone too long between meals and have gotten a headache, the shakes, and a loss of concentration, then you’ve felt firsthand what it’s like to have low blood sugar. Snacking between meals keeps blood sugar levels steady, which can help prevent you from grabbing the first (unhealthy) thing you can get your hands on and overindulging.

Fiber Fills You Up
Choosing snacks that are full of water and belly-filling fiber will help keep you full longer, so you actually eat less in the long run. Fruits, veggies, and whole-grain breads are great options, and if you need more ideas, here are 10 high-fiber snacks under 150 calories.

No More Overeating
You eat lunch around noon and dinner isn’t until 6 p.m. or later. No wonder you hit the dinner table feeling so ravenous that you stuff yourself silly. Now if you enjoyed a pear with some almonds around 3 p.m., you’d avoid that famished feeling and have the patience to prepare a healthy, sensibly sized meal. It works the other way, too. If you’re eating a meal and you know you’ll be enjoying a snack in two hours or so, you won’t feel the need to overeat at mealtime.

Did you make a New Year’s Resolution? Of course you did, everyone does.

Have you fulfilled your resolution or goal? If not, your goal might have been too vague.

Let’s break down an example: lose weight. Sounds simple right? If this was your goal, 9 times out of 10 you would fail. The reason– you have no way to measure success. Now, if your goal was lose 10 pounds, you would actually have something to work towards, thus improving the chances of success.

1. Keep your goals simple. If complex, break into multiple goals, focusing on one at a time.
2. Ensure direction by adding a number, or commitment date.
3. Partner up with someone else with a similar goal